Career
Lowndes"s research focusses upon artist-led projects, interdisciplinary and performance-related practice and contemporary art, and she has written extensively on post-war art, music and politics in Glasgow in publications including Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since World World War II (Glasgow: Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions, 2012), Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene (Luath Press, 2010) and “The Glasgow Scene”, The History of British Art, Volume III (London: Tate Publishing, 2008). Lowndes has contributed to Frieze, Art on Paper, Untitled, Map, 2HB, Spike Art Quarterly and Afterall and to catalogues for international institutions, including Richard Wright (2009), Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville (2011) and Dieter Roth: Diaries (2012). Her curatorial projects include the sculpture park "Dialogue of Hands" (Glasgow International, 2012) and Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since World World War II (Mackintosh Museum, 2012) and she is also the editor of art magazine The Burning Sand.